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John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry [nb 1] was an effort by abolitionist John Brown, from October 16 to 18, 1859, to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (since 1863, West Virginia).
11 lis 2024 · Harpers Ferry Raid was an assault that took place October 16–18, 1859, by an armed band of abolitionists led by John Brown on the federal armory located at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now in West Virginia). It was a main precipitating incident to the American Civil War.
4 mar 2010 · Learn about the 1859 raid by abolitionist John Brown on the U.S. military arsenal at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Find out how it sparked the Civil War and led to Brown’s execution.
16 paź 2024 · W czasie niespodziewanego ataku na miasteczko Brown pojmał koło 60 prominentów Harpers Ferry. Miał nadzieję, że w wyniku tego, zbuntowani niewolnicy wstąpią w jego szeregi. Jego nadzieje okazały się jednak płonne.
In October 1859, Brown led a raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (which later became part of West Virginia), intending to start a slave liberation movement that would spread south; he had prepared a Provisional Constitution for the revised, slavery-free United States that he hoped to bring about.
11 lis 2024 · John Brown was a militant American abolitionist and veteran of Bleeding Kansas whose raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859 and subsequent execution made him an antislavery martyr and was instrumental in heightening sectional animosities that led to the American Civil War.
27 paź 2009 · John Brown was a militant abolitionist whose violent raid on the U.S. military armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, was a flashpoint in the pre‑Civil War era.
